25 July 2010: Visit of the Suzhou Industrial Park

Thanks to Glory, my fellow ADE classmate who drove us around to the self-contained and self-maintained Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park, where the Singapore government left a significant footprint in the country's industrial development plans more than 10 years ago.

Ah! Of course the sense of pride when we entered the park... it's like another big town... everything's huge. Perhaps that's what typical Chinese like to do... and of course, China could afford the space! There's a lake, where some landmarks that resembles those in Singapore were there - which includes the "Esplanade"-like mall, but it's replaced by the "bird-nest" design. Maybe the Chinese could associate better to bird nest than durian! Hahaha! There's also the "Moonlight Harbour", which resembles that of Clark Quay.




We had a good dinner at one of the restaurants - 老北门. Pretty interesting food - started off with Duck Tongue (yak, yak by imagination... ok, it didn't taste bad... a bit 'crispy' hahah... But I won't want to try again). There's also frog meat! haha... but cooked with, or I should say, were immersed in black pepper chilli oil! Eeeeee..... hahaha.... The Chinese seem to be quite 'extra' for some dishes.